Saturday, April 12, 2003

AAGH! Ok, so I won't join Elfwood, then. Okay, I joined, but won't make a gallery since my pictures "aren't modern fantasy"! I sent some nice pretty pictures of Damon and his friends and foes there and got a rejected ticket as a response. The reasons stated that "The pictures aren't modern fantasy. Simply saying that they are based on tarot cards doesn't count"! As I've written my novel quite a lot, and it being my favourite one, I think I can state that it *is* modern fantasy, if a label should be put to it.

What is modern fantasy, then? What does Elfwood think it is? Isn't the point of modern fantasy (at least sometimes) that the guys don't look any different from normal people but have some strange gifts/powers/natures? How can one send a picture of a modern mage there, if it's just a guy on a trenchcoat? Is it enough to say that the picture portrays a mage? And how about a modern vampire? Perhaps my gloomy Christophe in his pinstripe suit? Should he be grimacing like a standard vampire, showing his fangs, if it isn't enough to say that he is a vampire? I mean, what is going on?

I'm just so very mad now. I love my Damon. He's happy as modern fantasy. But if Elfwood doesn't want me to share my stories and imagination, then I won't. I won't be drawing pointy ears or huge freaking guns to my characters just because they would then feel happy to call it modern fantasy.

So there. Not joining a community of interesting and good artists, then.
Rant over.
(............still fuming................)

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